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what would you say are the philosophical influences of slaughterhouse five? nietzsche?

>> No.18345110

>>18345091
Vonnegut read Nietzsche (I think this is mentioned in Timequake or Man Without a Country); he also outright mentions Dostoyevsky in Slaughterhouse-Five. In his more autobiographical works he seems to have read more than was let on, and in his own life left his first wife over her emergent Christianity, but I think personally that, as stated throughout Slaughterhouse and Timequake, it was his own sentiments and feelings over the war developed over some several decades.

>> No.18345120

Martha Stewart.

>> No.18345849

bump

>> No.18346852

Just finished it.

What a fucking random story

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>>18346852
He's the worst postmodernist by far and a proto-redditor

>> No.18346881

>>18346852
>Poo-tee-weet
"LMAOOO pseuds are gonna scratch their heads over this for decades to come"
- Vonnegut, probably

>> No.18346986

>>18345091
Celine, but made enjoyable for women

>> No.18347237

>>18345091
Dont forget to wear your ‘i love science’ t shirt while reading it

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>>18345091
Maybe Parmenides, there are parts that could come from Nietzsche, but overall I feel the strongest influence is probably something like Voltaire's Candide or Cervantes' Don Quixote.